ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 694
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| Date: | Tuesday 16 April 1996 |
| Time: | 19:17 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche C |
| Owner/operator: | Goddards Air Service (Pty) Ltd |
| Registration: | VH-EDG |
| MSN: | 30-1823 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1969 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 3 km S of Charleville Airport, Charleville, QLD -
 Australia
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Tanbar Station, Queensland |
| Roma, Queensland (RMA/YROM) | |
| Investigating agency: | BASI |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
VH-EDG was ferried to Australia in US markings as N8679Y, and registered in Australia in August 1970. Written off 16 April 1996: The pilot was conducting a charter flight from Roma to Quilpie, Windorah and Tanbar Station 100 km south-west of Windorah. The aircraft was refuelled at Windorah with 170.5 L of Avgas, and departed Windorah at 14:00 EST for Tanbar. At 17:39 EST the pilot transmitted flight-plan details to Brisbane Flight Service by radio for the flight to Roma.
He advised that the flight would be conducted under the visual flight rules (VFR), and that the aircraft endurance was 250 minutes. He nominated a SARTIME of 21:00 EST for his arrival at Roma.
At 19:03 EST the pilot made an "all stations" broadcast 20 nautical miles west of Charleville. He reported inbound on the 270 VOR radial on descent for a practice VOR approach, and said that after a missed approach he would proceed to Roma.
Witnesses at the airport saw the aircraft fly overhead from the west. The aircraft was seen to turn right onto a southerly heading and soon afterwards the sound of the aircraft diminished. A bang was then heard and felt through the ground at about 19:15 EST. The aircraft wreckage was located the next day by a search party 3 Km south of the airfield. The aircraft had struck the ground whilst banked vertically to the right with a 45-degree nose-down attitude, and disintegrated. The pilot - the sole person on board - was killed
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. Air-Britain: Colin M. Smith, Piper Aircraft
2. https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1996/aair/aair199601209.aspx
3. https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/24985/ASOR199601209.pdf
4. http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Piper-PA-30-160-Twin-Comanche-C/2493920
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Jan-2008 10:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 20-Jun-2013 13:14 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 24-Apr-2014 18:42 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Apr-2017 17:39 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Jun-2022 04:09 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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